Word: panic
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...There were reports last week of people fleeing Mutitjulu, the 500-strong community which will be the first stop for the army and police, but one long-time social worker there says she's seen no such panic. "They aren't frightened of the police and the army, and they're not running off to the sand hills," she says. "I don't think many women will have any problem with having extra police around." Rather, there's cautious optimism that this time, help might be coming. Pearson has called for skeptics to give the Howard intervention a chance...
...drugs is about controlling people, not crime. Drugs have largely been defined by their links to vice and bacchanalia—from Homer’s lotus eaters (rescued from Lethe and lethargy) to modern pill-popping clubbers—which sets off a hand-wringing moral panic rather than rational thought. Perhaps the social externalities of drug use exceed the costs of prohibition, but the war on drugs usually isn’t justified by such cost-benefit analysis...
...doubles. Shooting 50.8 percent from the field, Harvard dominated, creating a 63-37 advantage at one point. San Jose State could not keep up as the Crimson ultimately won the bout, 83-62.“Once they gained confidence and learned that there is not a need to panic, we began winning games,” Delaney-Smith said.Their confidence appeared once again against crosstown rival Boston College. At halftime, Harvard actually trailed the Eagles, 31-22, but the second period belonged entirely to the Crimson. Offensive production from all sides of the floor chipped away...
...sense, foreigners' buying companies is a good thing for a debtor nation like the U.S., because it's harder to dump those investments in a panic than it is to sell bonds. But there's a worrisome aspect to this trend, even beyond the usual xenophobic concerns about foreigners' acquiring our national treasures...
Midwestern sensibilities, puerile humor, and visionless writing were all things we tried to bring to Harvard, but they were rejected. Nevertheless it was a lot of fun trying to force ourselves upon you, no matter how times you socked us in the nuts and dove for a blue phone panic button like it was the peak of the Aggro Crag. Though six out of seven days we fall asleep in the basement storage room of some anonymous Yard dormitory feeling like the boy who just placed third to two girls on Global Guts, it’s that seventh...